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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2020
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jared Sean Rosoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mark Russell Johnson, McKinleyville, CA (US);
Adrian Drzewiecki, Cupertino, CA (US);
VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An example virtualized computing system includes a host cluster having a virtualization layer directly executing on hardware platforms of hosts, the virtualization layer supporting execution of virtual machines (VMs), the VMs including pod VMs, the pod VMs including container engines supporting execution of containers in the pod VMs; an orchestration control plane integrated with the virtualization layer, the orchestration control plane including a master server and pod VM controllers, the pod VM controllers executing in the virtualization layer external to the VMs, the pod VM controllers configured as agents of the master server to manage the pod VMs; pod VM agents, executing in the pod VMs, configured as agents of the pod VM controllers to manage the containers executing in the pod VMs.